Thursday, 20 September 2012

ROSE COLOURED PECTORALS

At first they were over the far side of the scrape feeding with a single dunlin

but after a while one of them came to the near side,although never close.

After a pass by a peregrine disturbed them a sparrowhawk was too much and they took flight towards Pegwell and I headed for home.

SMALL COPPER near REST HARROW

PRINS DER NEDERLANDER bringing shingle for deal beach.

LUNAR UNDERWING IN THE TRAP LAST NIGHT

Today was one of those days when an early call from Paul Holt meant a rarity had turned up a juvenile ROSE COLOURED STARLING had been found at the Hoe by Geoff Burton.
When I got there a few bods were already on site,the bird had joined up with the resident starling flock and showed clearly in the sunshine as a very pale bird compared to the normal starlings.

JUVENILE ROSE COLOURED STARLING.

A LOW FLY PASS BY A CHINOOK CHOPPER

DUNLIN on the west pond.
While sorting out the photos I came across this

I didn`t know at the time that the RCS had been there focusing on the central bird.,shame about the missing wing tip.

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About Me

born and bred in Dover, educated at Dover grammar school, early interest in all sports , nature and steam trains. I lived very close to the railway line at Tower Hamlets. On leaving school I found a career in local govt as a building inspector working at Dover, Ashford and Shepway councils, retiring after forty years service in 2006. I played football in the kent amateur league for crabble athletic, cricket for dover cosmopolitans, and late in life discovered the joys of rugby playing for Dovers lower sides into my forties.
I have two sons Colin and Philip[packet]and am in a relationship with Cathy.
Birdwatching began seriously in my late teens when Spud Taylor introduced me to the song of the willow warbler , terns at sandwich bay, redshanks and snipe at stodmarsh and shelduck at nagden and apart from when rugby became all consuming I have been a birder ever since. Since retiring I have spent most of my time wandering around East Kent watching and now photographing birds and butterflies. I am a volunteer ranger at Samphire
Hoe on a tuesday where my claim to fame is finding a hoopoe in august 2009.